All About Beer Magazine September 2004 Issue

Volume: 25 - Issue: 4

Features

Bottle or draft? Imported or domestic? Forget politics; even in an election year, beer drinkers are more likely to debate issues like hoppy versus malty or ales versus lagers. But brewers have used politics and elections as a way to advertise their products.

The Pocket Guide to Beer, Seventh Edition, by Michael Jackson, Running Press, $12.95—Stands alone as the best compact guide to the world’s beers and breweries. Good Beer Guide to Belgium & Holland by Tim Webb, 2002 edition, $16.95—a comprehensive, witty and detailed investigation of this important region, with information and travel tips on beer styles,... View Article

Two north German cities on opposite banks of the Rhine River are home to two distinct styles of beer: kölsch from Cologne and altbier from Düsseldorf. These are beers that predate the lager revolution of the mid-1800s. Breweries in Cologne and Düsseldorf stubbornly continue to produce top-fermented ales, while almost every other brewery in Germany... View Article

There’s a joke going the rounds of the British brewing industry that runs like this: “What do you call Scottish & Newcastle Breweries now that it doesn’t have breweries in either Scotland or Newcastle? Answer: Ampersand Breweries, because that’s all that’s left.”

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The notion of brewing a “one-off” is not uncommon. But there is a whole family of styles, the lambics, that fit said bill with respect to convention. So individual are they, that virtually every aspect of their production is anarchistic. Brewing, fermentation, aging, maturation, and even ingredients are distinctive. The result is a beer that... View Article

For a baseball fan growing up around New York, the Sixties was an enchanted era. On summer nights, the radio filled my room with the sounds of epic pitchers’ duels, bench-clearing brawls, and late-inning heroics. And, of course, beer commercials. Thousands of them. Long before they could serve me at the corner tavern, I knew... View Article

Rockies Brewing Co. Boulder, CO Available: CO, AZ, NM, WY, NE, KS, MN, IL, IN, OH, FL, NY, MA Rockies Brewing Co., Colorado’s first microbrewery, is celebrating their 25th anniversary this year with a “goatshed revival” to recall the site of their first brewhouse. Check the photo at www.boulderbeer.com to see three of the reviewers... View Article

Charles Wells Bedford, England Imported by: Lionstone International for SBS-Imports Seattle, WA Available: WA, OR, CA, AZ, ID, MT, OH, CO The Eagle Brewery was founded in 1876 in Bedford, England by merchant seaman Charles Wells, whose family has managed the brewery for five generations. Bombadier was created in 1977 to celebrate the company receiving... View Article